The "Standing Up To Bullying" Conference coming to Denver

Conference offers Educators, parents, and the community with solutions to the issues of youth bullying and violence.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT

With the rise of bullying and school violence, Building Strong Families National Seminars, http://www.StrongFamilies.us, is presenting a powerful full-day conference entitled, “Standing Up To Bullying” on Friday, September 28th, 2007 from 8:00am to 3:00pm at the:

Ramada Inn Continental (Midtown)
2601 Zuni Street
Denver, CO 80211

Designed to equip school administrators, educators, school social workers, school counselors, school psychologists, parents, youth workers, child care workers, and anyone else who works with children, with the skills and tools geared to minimize bullying and school violence, this conference addresses:

- Characteristics or attributes that make specific children capable of bullying others or become a target for bullying.
- How emotional problems affect children.
- The role of the self-esteem and its affect on bullying.
- How body and verbal language impacts on bullying.
- The effects of Bullying.
- How the term ‘standing up for oneself’ and ‘tattling’ has been redefined in our society.
- Managing and attending to child misbehavior.
- Developing an effective behavior management program by developing rules, consequences, and a token economy system.
- Specific communication skills that motivates and encourages compliance in children.
- Effectively integrating social and conflict resolution skills.
- Empowering children who are victimized by bullying.
- Teaching compromising and negotiating skills to resolve conflicts.
- Using non-physical de-escalation techniques in crisis situations.
- Applying self-defense techniques.
- Recognizing and preventing burnout.

The cost per participant is $50.00. However, a 10% discount will apply for those that pay online.

Those that would like to attend are asked to pre-register online at http://www.StandingUpToBullying.com or phone (Toll-Free) 866-544-4075 by Wednesday, September 19th, 2007.



Website: http://StrongFamilies.us